Adrienne Miller | |
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Born | 1972 (age 52–53) Columbus, Ohio, U.S. |
Occupation | Writer |
Adrienne Miller (born 1972) is an Americanwriter. From 1997 to 2005, she was the fiction editor ofEsquire.
Miller was born in 1972 inColumbus, Ohio. She lived in a small farming community surrounded by silos and cornfields until she was nine years old. At nine, her parents moved to a suburb ofAkron, Ohio.
Miller moved toNew York City in the spring of 1994, a week before her college graduation. She worked atGQ, as an editorial assistant, then as an assistant editor. In 1997, she became the literary editor ofEsquire, a position she held until leaving in 2005. In 2006, that position was filled byTom Chiarella. Her novel,The Coast of Akron, was published byFarrar, Straus and Giroux in 2005.
During the fall semester of 2009, Miller took a teaching position at the University of Pennsylvania's College of Arts and Sciences, where she taught a writing seminar on Russian authorVladimir Nabokov and Swedish filmmakerIngmar Bergman.
Miller's 2020 memoir,In the Land of Men, was called a literary junkie's "dream come true" by Associated Press reviewer Lincee Ray.[1]
In the March 2018 issue ofVogue, Miller published an account of the sexual harassment she encountered atGQ andEsquire.[2]